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For me the following features (in no particular order) set ProcessWire apart from other systems: Easy core upgrades, just replace the wire folder and you are good to go. Low (zero) maintenance costs for core and plugins (with WordPress you need to watch plugins and core every week or day and update them) Free and Open Source Custom fields in core Easy to learn API Multi-language out of the box (which needs support for multi-language images, but that is another topic. I also know they are possible via ugly workarounds) The welcoming and helpful community Custom modules that modify ProcessWire or add new functionality without modifying the core

A storm rolled through Saturday and somehow severed our fiber internet connection. So I was offline for half of the week. But that was fine because I didn’t need an internet connection in order to start developing the new PW site design. I’ve been busy primarily with the template files and CSS this week and am making good progress and having fun. One of the new additions to the site is one suggested by the designers, which is to have a features section and call attention to and provide more details about ProcessWire’s broad set of features. For each feature, we'll have a short title, a 1 sentence summary, and a body copy page of details (if they click to "learn more"). As I begin writing the content for this, I could use your help: What are the features of ProcessWire that you think deserve the most attention? (Especially when it comes to attracting new users). I’ll be writing text to describe a dozen or more features in detail, but wanted to make sure I’m focused on those that are most interesting to our current and future users. Thanks for your feedback, and have a great weekend!

I resonate very deeply with this, especially in the last 2 years where I'm using ProcessWire as a web application framework. Maybe it's my impatience of having to write migration files or the fact that I'm usually a team of one, but modeling an app in this way and getting an admin interface "for free" with everything interconnected is peak productivity. I look at ProcessWire very differently as of 2 years ago. In 2006/7, not long after I decided to get into website development, I gravitated towards Ruby On Rails (which has a special place in my heart even though I haven't used it in over a decade). However given my lack of experience with programming in general at that time (I was more of a "hacker") and the fact that a web application framework lends itself to complex applications, OOP, software engineering, etc., it was too early for me to pursue that line of work, so I went down the CMS path and eventually found PW in ~2012 after searching for an alternative for WordPress for a few years. Two years ago, I had the opportunity to re-write an internal order and production system (a true web application... no frontend, purely admin) and I had to make a decision... should I write this in a web application framework like Rails/Laravel or can I actually do this in ProcessWire in the "ProcessWire Way"? This forced me to look at ProcessWire in completely differently and to make a long story short, I've proven it to myself, on a deep level, that ProcessWire is a very capable web application framework as well. Realizing and proving this to myself with this system I've developed is liberating because for me, I can use one system to do two very different types of projects.

At this point it's a bit hard to put myself in the shoes of someone just getting here, but some highlights from the top of my head: The community is awesome 🙂 The ability to define and modify data structures in the admin using an easy-to-use GUI is still a huge deal. One can quite literally create a full-blown application just by clicking around the admin, especially when combining it with something like ListerPro (though that's a commercial tool, so may be a bit off scope here). Even for those with zero programming know-how, getting a simple ProcessWire powered site (or app) up and running is a (relatively) easy task. Selector engine makes querying data extremely easy, and selectors also scale exceptionally well for complex needs. Most beginners are unlikely to need to know how sub-selectors or OR groups or more complex operator types work, but there is a lot of flexibility hidden underneath. For those that have worked (or fought) with WP_Query, our selector engine is a major selling point. Right out of the box there's a lot of stuff there that even some of the most advanced content management systems don't have — custom content types, amazing language support, numerous field types and inputfields, etc. Honestly, the language support alone is more advanced than anything I've seen in other systems so far, with or without plugins. While it's impossible to compete in numbers with WP, there are actually a lot of high quality modules for ProcessWire. One probably won't be able to carve out a custom application just by slapping modules on top of modules, but there's a whole lot of stuff that they can do. Once you're familiar with the system, extending it with modules and/or hooks is easy. Did I mention the community? Also, ProcessWire is open source and free to use with no strings attached. Unlike some other systems. (Sorry, had to go there.)

For me ProcessWire combines the best of two worlds: The world of CMS/Blogging Platforms like WordPress and the world of Frameworks like Laravel or Symfony. I think edit: I had to let AI write my brain-dump in a more professional way and I could not have said it better: My quick and dirty prompt (don't blame me for grammar etc 😉 ) I know we can debate about AI in general but I think it is very interesting to get this "birds eye view" of aggregated data as it somewhat shows the current information that lies around the web at the moment: I also think that ProcessWire is a perfect alternative for systems like Typo3 and I bet that there are many many developers out there that would be super happy if they knew that ProcessWire existed! See this showcase for example. I think this says a lot! More people need to know about ProcessWire, especially the folks that are not using (or do not want to use) WordPress. All the people that expect building a website to be a "click-click install this plugin that plugin" experience are not our target audience. But all the people looking for alternatives and being unhappy with typo3/drupal/etc. are! ProcessWire lacks a good page building concept. Don't want to say more about that as it would fill a whole other topic 🙂 Many need a second look. Me 10 years ago included! At first sight I totally underestimated the power and beauty of this system. I hope the new website can help to change that 🙂 https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-typo3 High traffic site? Loads of content? Why is nobody thinking of ProcessWire in that case? And here is what AI thinks about Typo3 vs. PW: Really excited to see the new design and website 🤩 Good luck and all the best 🚀 Thx for building and sharing such a great masterpiece with us!

The main reason I switched to ProcessWire was the fact that I could add an unlimited amount of templates with 100% custom fields to my projects. Back in the days WordPress had two types of content: posts, pages - I remember when the feature to have pages was added. 😂 So I started using Textpattern which allowed me to have at least 10 custom fields and individual page templates. Which worked pretty well for a while but ... after some time I needed more fields, more templates, and found ProcessWire. In that moment I was able to create templates for books, restaurants, movies, musicians, whatever type of data I wanted and needed. Fields became more than just strings or dates. It was possible to have textareas, repeaters, tables whereever and whenever needed. That was pretty much 10+ years ago. 🤯 Oh... and of course having this was awesome as well: an unlimited amount of backend users, user roles, access management, multilanguage support, resource friendly and worked perfectly fine even on low-end cheap shared hosting.

I think, you only need to change to CAI4, to get this work. I will search for the correct link here in the forum with instructions for the change from CAI3 to CAI4. EDIT: here is the link: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/23294-croppableimage-with-webp-support/ ...

Oh and if you need a quote for the website, this might be a starting point:

Didn’t try it yet, no. I’ll do that and let the community know about it. Thanks for the lead.

+1. This may not sound very shiny and impressive, but you see a lot of systems where URLs are somehow divorced from the data structure and it’s a big turn-off for me. PW’s more manual routing features (urlsegments, path hooks) are also awesome.

Want to share the name of the extension? 🙂

ProcessWire has a lot of great features that make it better than many competitors. I'm sure there's much more, but here's a start: Build anything Powerful field types and unlimited templates allow you to build anything. Simple yet powerful API ProcessWire gives you the tools to build what you want, easily and in record time. Headless or hybrid Create a REST or GraphQL API or a traditional website. Any template engine Twig, Blade, Latte or plain PHP? We've got you covered. Multi language Reaching an audience in multiple languages is not an afterthought but built right into the core. Powerful permissions Let users see only what they need to see, with a fine grained permission system. Easily Extensible Modules can change or extend almost any aspect of the system. Long-term backwards compatible We know you hate breaking changes. So do we.

ProcessWires ❤️ features Custom Fields and templates Selector engine Multi language Freedom of output Tree hierarchy with clean urls Permissions system Extensibility: Modules and hooks Image handling. Thumbnails included Community

Glad you found it and thanks for the tips for windows users. There is a dedicated forum thread with tips & tricks:

Tracy's RequestInfo panel has all the details I think you are looking for: